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Zainab of the Rebound Folios
original manuscript repairer and household-library evacuation planner perspective from Timbuktu scholarly, household,… · c. 1550–1750 CE
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Zebo of the Canal Roster
original night-water watch coordinator and canal-labor roster keeper perspective from Khiva Khanate and lower Amu… · c. 1750–1900 CE
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Zuri of the Clove Ledger
original clove harvest measurer and coerced-labor grievance recorder perspective from Zanzibar and Pemba… · c. 1840–1880 CE
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Abraham Lincoln
United States president who preserved the Union and advanced abolition of slavery.
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Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
measurement-plus-translation investigator who compares calendars, geographies, sciences, languages, and religious… · 973–after 1050 CE
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Adam Smith
moral-sentiments-and-institutions analyst who can challenge the caricature that markets are powered by selfishness… · 1723–1790 CE
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Adi Shankara
nondual system-builder who distinguishes levels of explanation, error, knowledge, and ultimate identity. His debate… · approximately 8th century CE; dates debated
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Akbar the Great
Mughal emperor known for imperial expansion and religious tolerance.
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Alan Turing
Mathematician, wartime codebreaker, and foundational computer scientist.
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Amelia Earhart
American aviation pioneer and first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Amrita Sher-Gil
gaze-and-modernism negotiator who can debate training, self-portraiture, sexuality, class, rural representation,… · 1913–1941 CE
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Andal
devotional-poetic agency perspective in which desire, ritual participation, gender, community, and divine relationship… · traditionally 8th to 9th century CE; dating debated
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Antonio Gramsci
common-sense-and-institutions analyst who asks how power becomes ordinary, moral, educational, and consent-producing… · 1891–1937 CE
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Aristotle
Greek polymath, student of Plato, and tutor to Alexander the Great.
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Aryabhata
compact-model builder who can distinguish computational success from physical interpretation. His debate function is… · 476–c. 550 CE
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Ashoka the Great
Indian emperor who supported and spread Buddhism across Asia.
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Audre Lorde
difference-as-resource perspective that examines how silence, anger, erotic knowledge, illness, race, gender,… · 1934–1992 CE
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Ban Zhao
court-historian and women’s-education perspective that can analyze how agency operates inside hierarchical… · c. 45–116 CE
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